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People just like to say that, Ill. The twenties really has more of a connection to the seventies, when all the glam kids watched Cabaret and decided it would be a jolly good idea to try and recreate the Weimar Republic in Wolverhampton. And why not? It could only ever be an improvement...
Hmmm. I've been concentrating on my poetry-magick for the last two months or so, alternating with some body-alteration work and an ongoing invocation of several personal gods (Hicks, HST, and pretty much the entire cast of Velvet Goldmine) to augment it, so I've not been engaging in any global analyses - but this thing about Mars coming close to the Earth is very interesting. Cabalistically, Mars is associated with Geburah, the sphere of stern judgement, the sphere where the false gets burned away, kinda like the Phoenix in the X-Men books. (I think that's the right association - maybe one of the cabala fiends here can correct me if I'm wrong). Crowley always preferred to think of 'judgement' as 'adjustment', things moving into balance, the correction of mistakes, a new equilibrium etc, and that relates to geburah's connection to Tiphareth, I guess. It's interesting how much this 'Mars meme' has been trickling through pop culture and seems to be coming to a head now. I mean, to name but two (rather trivial) examples, we've got the conclusion of LOEG2, the British Empire vs. the Martians, due any day now, and Mars Attacks! is being shown on ITV on saturday night. And the beeb have been advertising their Saturday night movie, Deep Impact (which is itself a remake of When Worlds Collide) using Holst's Mars, the bringer of war as the trailer music.
What does it all mean? I dunno, really. Change, at a guess - sudden, massive, violent change, leading to a reassessment of the order of things. It might be a physical war - but there's always one of them going on somewhere. If I was being a politics bore, I'd say maybe something'll happen in Israel, but my instincts say no. Iraq? Well, there've been soldiers being picked off there for weeks now - it's difficult to say what kind of massive change (besides Saddam either nuking the country or getting disembowelled by Shrub) we'll see there. Internal trouble, perhaps, in the US? More and more grumbling about wanting the troops to come home...Another terrorist attack? Again, my instincts say that's not likely. So what? Like I say, I don't know. It'll be something mad that we're not expecting; something that fucks with our minds violently and means we have to reassess.
Oh, another Mars synchronicity - the Mars Volta released a new album recently. |
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